TripAdvisor Reviews Vivanta by Taj - Panaji

Travel Blogs from Panaji

... much into my facehole as my digestive system could handle or I would have had to be transported back to Panjim on the back of a flatbed. There are bars and live music and DJs playing trance for people to dance to. Or shuffle from foot to foot too with their heads down and their arms in the air under a sign saying that the night market was a drug free zone. Uh huh. Surrrre it is. It's an awesome night though. We didn't buy ...

... the situation. There is a person who is the people mover and he shouts abuse at people who think they can sneak a bit of space; he calls out like an auctioner for people to get onto the bus and whistles in a very high pitch when it is time to stop for a passenger to get off. Very entertaining. While here we saw the various museums and churches, nay cathedrals, many being restored. We ...

A favorable aspect of traveling in India is that labor is relatively inexpensive in comparison to that in the U.S. and Europe. This meant hiring a driver to take us all over Rajasthan to visit the countless ancient temples, forts, and palaces would cost us next to nothing. A high price, however, was still to be paid given that we were goras, a minor derogatory/joking word used by Indian people to refer to white people (think gringo). Although our hotel, through which ...

... and a dress. We then had a walk up the beach, there wasn't too much around just a few stalls and places to eat, so we stopped at a place called cafe guru for a drink. The weather started to look pretty bleak so we headed back too our guesthouse and I picked up a couple of kingfisher strongs, minimum 8%. Back at the room the power was off again so we had a ...

... out to find some dinner which was unsuccessful in the darkness so we we bought them back to our hotel where we had dinner in our restaurant it was lovley and phil and rick started drinking old monk a very nice rum!! 60 rupees for a 70ml shot!! 60p!! Madness!! We all drank cocktails until 11pm as they opened the bar for us!! We they headed back to our room and got some ...